Baroque Period

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  • Emergence and expansion of the Counter-Reformation.
    1545

    Emergence and expansion of the Counter-Reformation.

    The first of these events was the emergence and expansion of the Counter-Reformation. In reaction to the Protestant religious advances made by the Reformation, the Roman Catholic church after the Council of Trent
  • Consolidation of absolute monarchies.
    1550

    Consolidation of absolute monarchies.

    political change brought the consolidation of absolute monarchies. In order to display the power and grandeur of the centralized state
  • Period: 1571 to

    Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

    He was a very important Italian painter who was considered the first exponent of baroque painting.
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    Gian Lorenzo Bernini

    He was one of the most important sculptors of the Baroque period
  • The destruction of Religious

    The destruction of Religious

    Protestant iconoclasm led to both the destruction of Religious art and lessen of amount of art in Protestant areas. Europe was divided into the Protestant North and Catholic South.
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    Calderón de la Barca

    He was a writer and member of the Venerable Congregation of Secular Priests, known mainly for being one of the most distinguished baroque writers of the Golden Age, especially for his theater.
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    The Thirty Years' War

    Plague epidemics, the decline in gold brought from the Americas, left a trail of hunger and poverty that influenced the decline in population.
  • The meninas

    The meninas

    It is one of the works of the time and by Velázquez.
  • The steam engine

    The steam engine

    simple pumps used to remove water from mineshafts. Made by Thomas Newcomen
  • death of Johann Sebastian Bach

    death of Johann Sebastian Bach

    He was one of the most important musicians of the time and for many marked the end of the Baroque period.